Nitram Rating: Verdict: Hugely powerful The Princess Rating: Verdict: Diana's story, astutely told The Australian director Justin Kurzel is a classy operator behind the camera, and his wife Essie Davis is generally terrific in front of it. Nitram tells the story of Martin Bryant, who is serving 35 life sentences concurrently: one for every person he shot dead on a …
"Nitram" is a chilling film about a mass shooting that took place in 1996 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. I remember reading it and feeling so much more dread and anxiety than I did reading "The Snowtown Murders," which was actually Shaun's first film, which was quite explicit on screen and quite violent. I think it's about what an audience doesn't …
When is a soul truly lost? The Australian film “Nitram” works toward some ideas, and they don’t make Justin Kurzel’s disturbing fact-based drama any easier to watch. There’s an unmistakably reproachful tone to the unseen correspondent’s voice when she asks one blond boy, “Do you think you’ll be playing with firecrackers anymore?” His casual answer: “Yes.” Which is how we …
